It’s because a senator Portman pays no price for statements like that. President Biden would.
Did Saddam have WMD? I think he had plenty of time to hide them if so. Could a President Bush not take the subject seriously?
Taking a subject seriously and giving them time to disperse and hide them and then acting upon it was idiotic to say the least. You know, egg on the face stuff.
We won zilch from all the death in Iraq other than getting rid of Hussein and his rotten boys. Meanwhile, Iraq is a freaking mess.